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The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening
Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew A sharp, self-abnegating performance from Anabela Moreira elevates this passionate – largely in the religious sense – Portuguese debut, which is only now arriving in the UK after festival screenings dating back to 2020. As senior nun Josefina, she wears a permanent cowl of careworn melancholy, suggesting a woman for whom, even after she is summoned to look after her bereaved 15-year-old nephew Alexandre (Martim Canavarro), holding the world at arm’s length is standard practice. Watching him slam into girl drivers on the fairground dodgems, it seems clear that desire is for other people. Or maybe not. Josefina is called back to her childhood village after the death of her father, who – in her wantaway sister’s absence – was Alexandre’s guardian. Traumatised by finding th
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Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew A sharp, self-abnegating performance from Anabela Moreira elevates this passionate – largely in the religious sense – Portuguese debut, which is only now arriving in the UK after festival screenings dating back to 2020. As senior nun Josefina, she wears a permanent cowl of careworn melancholy, suggesting a woman for whom, even after she is summoned to look after her bereaved 15-year-old nephew Alexandre (Martim Canavarro), holding the world at arm’s length is standard practice. Watching him slam into girl drivers on the fairground dodgems, it seems clear that desire is for other people. Or maybe not. Josefina is called back to her childhood village after the death of her father, who – in her wantaway sister’s absence – was Alexandre’s guardian. Traumatised by finding th
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According to The Guardian’s source item, The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening, Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew A sharp, self-abnegating performance from Anabela Moreira elevates this passionate – largely in the religious sense – Portuguese debut, which is only now arriving in the UK after festival screenings dating back to 2020. As senior nun Josefina, she wears a permanent cowl of careworn melancholy, suggesting a woman for whom, even after she is summoned to look after her bereaved 15-year-old nephew Alexandre (Martim Canavarro), holding the world at arm’s length is standard practice. Watching him slam into girl drivers on the fairground dodgems, it seems clear that desire is for other people. Or maybe not. Josefina is called back to her childhood village after the death of her father, who – in her wantaway sister’s absence – was Alexandre’s guardian. Traumatised by finding th
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